Consumer & Shopper Planner - Smirnoff and Captain Morgan

Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global beverage company is seeking a Consumer & Shopper Planner to drive insights for Smirnoff and Captain Morgan. This role involves managing consumer insights, supporting marketing strategies, and collaborating with various teams. The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of experience in consumer insights, strong communication skills, and a proven track record in research project management. Join us in an inclusive environment that values diversity and flexibility.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years experience in consumer & shopper insights roles.
• Proven ability to translate research into actionable strategies.
• Experience managing end-to-end research projects.

Responsibilities

• Drive and project manage Consumer and Shopper Planning agenda.
• Champion the voice of the consumer and shopper in marketing.
• Manage the annual Marketing Business Plan process.

Skills

Consumer & shopper insights

Research project management

Market trend analysis

Strong communication

Cross-functional teamwork

Job description

Overview

Job Title-

Consumer & Shopper Planner - Smirnoff and Captain Morgan

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating!

About the Function

Our Marketing team are creators, helping to build and nurture some of the world’s most loved brands. We craft amazing connections with people around the world to celebrate our brands’ legacies and reinvent them for the world today, and into the future.

Everything we do is underpinned by a deep understanding of our consumers, behaviours, trends, and technologies. Using our genius and creativity, we unlock our brands’ uniqueness, understand their purpose, and put them at the heart of celebrations everywhere. Together, we’re celebrating diversity and challenging stereotypes through our advertising and marketing. Wherever your talents lie, from Design to Consumer Planning, you’ll be celebrated and supported in our inclusive culture.

About the role

You will drive and project manage the Consumer and Shopper Planning and Research agenda across Captain Morgan and Smirnoff

• To manage consumer and shopper insight and information from a variety of continuous and ad hoc sources ensuring a consumer and shopper narrative is forefront for business planning and marketing decisions.
• To champion the voice of the consumer and shopper across all marketing activity in x-agency forums ensuring consumer and shopper truths are upheld from Idea to Execution.
• To manage the Learning Plan agenda on both Captain Morgan and Smirnoff, identifying where research spend should be deployed to deliver the most effective and efficient insight and within this to manage research agencies accordingly.
• To manage the annual Marketing Business Plan process for Captain Morgan and Smirnoff, ensuring Brand plans have all the correct shopper and consumer inputs and that strategy springboards off clear consumer and occasion narrative.
• To be a key support for the Measurement and Evaluation of key Marketing activities, ensuring the Business has clear understanding for performance from a consumer and shopper perspective.
• To collaborate closely with Planning colleagues in European Innovation and Global teams, proactively collaborating and sharing information.
• Be a champion of External Curiosity for the Brand Teams and Marketing more generally to ensure the business remains abreast of key consumer and shopper trends.
• To be a key member of the Consumer and Shopper planning team; taking part in planning team initiatives, marketing trainings and wider consumer framework thinking.

Key Skills & Competencies

• Minimum 5 years experience in consumer & shopper insights roles, with proven impact in the GB market.
• Proven ability to translate qualitative and quantitative research into actionable strategies that drive brand and commercial growth.
• Skilled at connecting market trends, shopper behaviours, and brand positioning to create impactful marketing plans.
• Experience managing end-to-end research projects, agencies, and budgets, delivering high-quality insights on time.
• Strong communicator who can champion the voice of the consumer and inspire collaborators with compelling narratives.
• Ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams, global markets, and agency partners to deliver aligned outcomes.

Leadership capabilities

Win through Execution

• Act like an owner of Diageo by holding self and others to account for highest standards
• Inject restlessness to win and unlock capacity to decide and act quickly

Shape the Future

• Set context and empower people to experiment and unlock opportunities for growth
• Enable others to imagine the future and be brave to boldly act now
• Demand diverse external perspectives and trends that create impetus for change

Inspire through Purpose

• Inspire the team to take entrepreneurial risks by building trust and respect

Invest in Talent

• Displays confidence in their ability to meet challenges and succeed
• Takes ownership of their development and growth

Flexible Working

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Diversity

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, attitudes, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you!

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Worker Type

Worker Type : Regular

Location

Primary Location: 1HQ

Additional Locations

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Job Posting Start Date

Job Posting Start Date : 2025-08-22